Dipped into my backlog and finally started Horizon Zero Dawn.
Made me realize that PS5 and dat SSD got me spoiled man.
Waiting on the HZD loading screen for what felt like forever had me like:
brendasdeadbaby
Early reviews are promising. Need to see some from the heay hitters (IGN, Game Informer, etc.) before I pull the trigger.
CC:
well partly. aside from the obvious that Sony didn't fully support or market the system and the attempt to make money out of it thru proprietary hardware made it a lot less palatable. also, Smartphone gaming and monetizing was at it's popularity. the 3DS system was able to survive due to it being heavily established earlier and having popular carrier games on it. I don't think Vita has those while they did offer some good 3rd party games. I don't believe handhelds are out but became more flexible and has more options. the Switch on the otherhand, killed the 3DS.Smartphones killed the Vita. Non proprietary memory cards and all of Sony's first party devs on board would not have saved it. It was doomed from the start
People didn't need a separate device for games or media anymore. PSP was dead in Europe and NA towards the latter part of its life. It was only Japan keeping it alive with Monster Hunter leading the charge.
Vita had exclusive COD and Assassin's Creed titles which did not boost sales because the demand for portables in the west dried up. Most of Sony's big first party games also do not translate well to portables so there's nothing they could've done. You had Uncharted at launch but with worse graphics and no set pieces because of the hardware so it will not get the attention the PS3 or PS4 versions get. Same thing happened with the GOW and GT games on PSP.
Sony also tried to keep it on life support in Japan with the absence of Monster Hunter with Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice but it was never going to see PSP numbers.
Japanese third party support dropped too compared to the PSP especially from Capcom and Square.
3DS with Pokemon and Monster Hunter which the DS didn't have sold less than the PSP just to show you the decline in handhelds was felt by everyone.
Sony cut off portables. Nintendo fused their portable and console division into one and went hybrid.
Some people say handhelds are back because of the Switch and Steam Deck but Switch is the only way to play Nintendo games so you have no choice and even then they needed to inject some power into it and make it versatile. The standard and OLED version sell a lot more than the non hybrid lite version and the lite version is cheaper. Here's last week sales from Japan as an example and they prefer portables:
The Steam Deck sold 1 million in 1 year and it is heavily subsidized by Valve. Vita sold 12 million lifetime to put it in perspective.
DS was out, 3DS came out only 9 months prior to the PSVita
I was replying to buddy above regarding Switch killing 3DS.
exactly, pretty much the time the Switch came out. sometimes, I was thinking of whether I should have transitioned to the Switch and sold my n3DS unit early on while there was still high demand for it. might put it up now since I needed some dough to make some new purchases regardless of how much the value has decreased. mine though is partially modded as I replaced the memory to a much bigger capacity. I still haven't played some 2-3 games that I bought for it extensively though but no matter.
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